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Govt quits amid 'infighting' rumors, disputes with MPs
Amir accepts resignation - Assembly dissolution unlikely KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah yesterday submitted his resignation to HH the Amir two days after MPs filed no-confidence motions against two ministers and amid alleged infighting within the Cabinet. HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah accepted the resignation of the government and ordered the Cabinet to serve as a caretaker one until a new...
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Court commutes death sentence
The court of cassation yesterday sentenced a bedoon, who had been earlier sentenced to death for stabbing his father to death in Rehab, to life imprisonment. The court argued that the murder was not premeditated as the suspect was only trying to stop his father from harshly beating his sister and mother. His father then stabbed his son, which made him snatch the knife and stab him in the neck. The court added that the suspect, his sister and...
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15% of Kuwait's population suffers from diabetes
KUWAIT: Kuwait Diabetes Society and Novo Nordisk officials are seen during the press conference yesterday. KUWAIT: Endocrinologist and diabetician at Mubarak Hospital and Chairman of the Kuwait Diabetes Society Dr Waleed Al-Dhahi said Kuwait is among the countries with a high percentage of diabetics. He added the percentage of cases is up to 15 percent of the population or 425,000 diabetics, with around 200,000 more who haven't been diagnosed...
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Parking disputes
Muna Al-Fuzai Parking disputes are becoming life-threatening. In the last five years, we have been reading stories about fights over parking that led to deaths. Recently, an incident occurred in Kuwait where a lion was used as a weapon. A Kuwaiti decided to end a quarrel with his neighbor over a parking lot in a very dangerous way by bringing the wild animal to have the final word.The neighbor had objected that his parking space was occupied...
KUWAIT: A motorist buys fuel at a gas station. Kuwait government’s recent decision to make cuts to Kuwait’s petrol subsidy system is expected to boost state coffers amid low global oil prices, despite some push-back from organized labor.
Fill-and-run incidents accelerate
Workers at gas stations in various areas are complaining about the increasing number of motorists who fill their tank and simply drive away without paying. Despite the cameras installed at all petrol pumps around Kuwait, some drivers dare to leave without paying. According to a worker at a gas station in Daiya, this is happening on a daily basis. "We work shifts, so my working hours change, but I have faced thieves who drive away without paying...
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Competitive Kuwaiti women weightlifters break social norms
The Kuwaiti women’s weightlifting team and coaches. — KUNA Kuwaiti women have broken yet another social "glass ceiling" by entering the world of weightlifting, competing successfully in various tournaments both here and abroad. The Kuwaiti women weightlifting federation, established in September, managed to take its team of 24 athletes to several international tournaments in a step declaring that Kuwaiti women weightlifters are ready and...
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Coding as a professional skill grows in popularity in Kuwait
'Bootcamps teach youth tech skills for the future'Coding is an enormously flexible tool that you can use to do amazing things that are otherwise manual and laborious or just impossible. If you're using a smart phone or a computer, then you must know that all these devices are using some kind of programming. Kuwait Times explored Coded, the first academy in the Middle East that offers coding bootcamps that teach web and mobile development using...
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Tear gas kills Iraq protesters as authorities feel the heat
Deaths marked a resurgence of bloodshed BAGHDAD: Four protesters were killed by tear gas canisters in Baghdad yesterday as security forces try to snuff out the largest grassroots movement to sweep Iraq in years. Iraq's political elite has come under renewed pressure in recent days from both the street and the international community to seriously address calls for sweeping reform. There has been mounting international criticism of the authorities'...
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Ceasefire takes hold after deadly Israel-Gaza violence
34 Palestinians have being killed in exchanges of fireGAZA CITY: A ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza took hold yesterday after two days of fighting triggered by an Israeli strike on an Islamic Jihad commander, with 34 Palestinians killed in exchanges of fire. Both Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad and Israel's military confirmed the ceasefire early yesterday brokered by Egyptian and UN officials -- the usual...
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Italy to declare state of emergency in Venice as flood causes massive damage
'Tourists are taking pictures but the city is suffering'VENICE: Italy was poised to declare a state of emergency for Venice yesterday after an exceptional tide surged through churches, shops and homes, causing millions of euros worth of damage to the UNESCO city. Tourists larked around in the flooded St Mark's Square in the sunshine, snapping selfies in their neon plastic boots and taking advantage of a respite in bad weather which has driven the...
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Pressure builds as Trump impeachment probe hears new claims, higher-stakes
President was "too busy" to hear the public hearings WASHINGTON DC: Representative Jim Jordan(C), Republican of Ohio, looks on during the first public hearings held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as part of the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill. — AFP WASHINGTON: Two top US diplomats delivered gripping testimony Wednesday about Donald Trump's efforts to get Ukraine to investigate his...
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Second Ebola vaccine introduced in DR Congo
GOMA: The Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday introduced a second vaccine to fight a 15-month-old epidemic of Ebola in the east of the country, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said. The new vaccine, produced by a Belgian subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, will be administered to about 50,000 people over four months, the charity said. More than a quarter of a million people, many of them frontline health workers, have been immunized with...
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Kuwait opens visa 20 to visa 18 transfer from July 14 to September 12
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Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his arms to greet his supporters as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024.—AFP
Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election
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Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, acting in an upcoming Formula One-based movie, follows the second practice session ahead of the Formula One British Grand Prix at the Silverstone motor racing circuit in Silverstone, central England.--AFP
Brad Pitt at Silverstone for filming of F1 movie
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Uruguay's midfielder #05 Manuel Ugarte scores in a penalty shoot-out to win the Conmebol 2024 Copa America tournament quarter-final football match between Uruguay and Brazil at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 6, 2024. — AFP
Uruguay beat Brazil on penalties to reach Copa America semi-finals